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El-Sayed's Michigan Victory Implications · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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Speaker 1: It it's time for the truth be told with booker scott.
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Speaker 3: As the very important midterm election draws closer and closer
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Speaker 3: day by day, we go through another Tuesday and we
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Speaker 3: go through more primaries. That will be the case over
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Speaker 3: the next month or so. Yesterday, on Tuesday, we had
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Speaker 3: an important one in Michigan. We're going to get into
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Speaker 3: that here in this hour. Plus, there is a lot
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Speaker 3: more going on. Also, we have some things about fraud
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Speaker 3: and other things that we're going to get into that
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Speaker 3: was revealed on Tuesday and also on Monday. I'm Booker,
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Speaker 3: and this is The Truth Be Told. Thank you very
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Speaker 3: start there, but let's move into Tuesday. Every Tuesday from
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Speaker 3: now until sometime in the middle of September, we're going
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Speaker 3: to have big primaries that mean a lot for this
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Speaker 3: country and the election that's coming up in November. Believe
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Speaker 3: it or not, we are, what, 60 days away from
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Speaker 3: an election that really means a whole lot to many
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Speaker 3: people in this country, regardless of what side of the
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Speaker 3: political aisle you're on. You have people on the left
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Speaker 3: that think Donald Trump is orange man bad. And you
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Speaker 3: have people on the right that think socialism is creeping
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Speaker 3: into this country. The Muslims are taking over this country.
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Speaker 3: So this election is really, really important. Turnout for Republicans
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Speaker 3: has not been good in elections. That's a problem. And
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Speaker 3: are they going to be energized enough to go vote
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Speaker 3: in the November election on this midterm? We're going to
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Speaker 3: get into a lot of these predictions that are going
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Speaker 3: on right now. I have my own. I brought you
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Speaker 3: analysis videos. About a month ago, the first part of July,
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Speaker 3: here we are the first part of August, and I'm
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Speaker 3: going to try it again. I'll go through some things
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Speaker 3: that I've put out on social media on where I
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Speaker 3: think things are, and we'll kind of compare it with
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Speaker 3: other things. But first, let's go to Tuesday night, where
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Speaker 3: you had a very important primary in Michigan. It is
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Speaker 3: a litmus test for this country. You have Abdul El-Sayed
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Speaker 3: that is running in Michigan against Haley Stevens on Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: And it was a lot closer than I thought it
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Speaker 3: would be. It really was. Haley Stevens ran a pretty
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Speaker 3: good race, I guess. And she came close, but let's
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Speaker 3: go to NBC for this.
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Speaker 4: NBC News Decision Desk is officially projecting that Abdul El-Sayed
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Speaker 4: will win the Democratic primary for the United States Senate
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Speaker 4: in Michigan. He defeats Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
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Speaker 5: He will be the.
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Speaker 4: Democratic candidate this fall in the general election against former
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Speaker 4: Congressman Mike Rogers, who won the Republican nomination unopposed. Rogers,
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Speaker 4: who sought a Senate seat in 2024. narrowly lost, seeking
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Speaker 4: a rematch, seeking a rerun here.
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Speaker 1: He will do it against Abdul El-Sayed.
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Speaker 3: And that's one of the most important elections that I
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Speaker 3: believe that we have coming up in November. I have
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Speaker 3: talked about it on the program before, but El-Sayed will
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Speaker 3: be the guy. And the reason why I think it's important,
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Speaker 3: El-Sayed aligns with the Democrat Socialist of America. He really
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Speaker 3: is not in that whatever that is. I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to call it a party. I'm not going to legitimize
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Speaker 3: it that way. But he definitely aligns there. Haley Stevens
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Speaker 3: does not. And Haley Stevens loses that primary. As you heard,
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Speaker 3: Mike Rogers, he lost by 18, 19,000 votes to Slotkin
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Speaker 3: back in 2024. So here he is again. And when
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Speaker 3: you look at those polls, Michigan is still a toss-up.
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Speaker 3: Some of the polls have Mike Rogers leading. Some of
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Speaker 3: them have El-Sayed in a head-to-head. But now it's time
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Speaker 3: to get serious about this election in Michigan. This could
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Speaker 3: be a possible flip for the Republicans. It is held
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Speaker 3: right now by Democrat Gary Peters, who is retiring, so
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Speaker 3: he is gone. Another race that took place on Tuesday
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Speaker 3: was interesting. It was Cori Bush She was a former
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Speaker 3: member of the House of Representatives, but she lost. She
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Speaker 3: did not win, and it really wasn't close either. The
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Speaker 3: incumbent won that race, so Cori Bush will not come
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Speaker 3: back to the House of Representatives. In Virginia, you had
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Speaker 3: an important race, I think, in District 1. In Virginia,
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Speaker 3: you had a socialist, a DSA, a Democrat Socialist of America,
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Speaker 3: running against Democrat and the Democrat actually won in that.
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Speaker 3: So that was a good indication there in the state
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Speaker 3: of Virginia that the Democrat Socialist of America did not
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Speaker 3: get the attention there. And it really comes down to
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Speaker 3: the candidates. And even if you look at Michigan with
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Speaker 3: Haley Stevens and El Sayed, I would I would argue
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Speaker 3: that Haley Stevens was not a great candidate. I couldn't
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Speaker 3: vote for her just because of the way she talks,
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Speaker 3: but she wasn't a great candidate either. So it comes
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Speaker 3: down to really how good the candidates are. But let's
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Speaker 3: get into what this race and what the election looks
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Speaker 3: like coming up in November, because as you get closer,
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Speaker 3: you can kind of tell that there are some things aligning. However,
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Speaker 3: there's still a lot of time, a lot of time
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Speaker 3: in politics. 60 days is plenty of time for things
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Speaker 3: to go bad or go good for, you know, a
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Speaker 3: candidate or a political party. And we're going to have
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Speaker 3: to keep an eye on things. You see that Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump and his administration, they're saying a deal again in Iran.
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Speaker 3: And the deal is with the Strait of Hormuz. It's
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Speaker 3: very important for Donald Trump to open that. Iran says
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Speaker 3: that they have it closed and they control it. And
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Speaker 3: That's part of this memorandum of understanding that they are
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Speaker 3: working on. And if the Strait of Hormuz opens and
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Speaker 3: the gas prices can come back down, that will definitely help.
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Speaker 3: There are other things, though, that are going to come
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Speaker 3: into this when it comes to turnout and energizing the base.
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Speaker 3: The left is very energized against Donald Trump, and the
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Speaker 3: Republicans are somewhat scattered right now. A lot of Republicans
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Speaker 3: are unhappy with the Donald Trump administration and what they
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Speaker 3: have done just going to Iran to begin with. A
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Speaker 3: lot of people feel like they shouldn't have done that,
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Speaker 3: and they're frustrated. Some Donald Trump supporters have been frustrated
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Speaker 3: by him, and maybe they don't feel like their vote
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Speaker 3: really matters and nothing would change. And because of that,
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Speaker 3: they don't go vote. So ultimately, we're going to give
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Speaker 3: power to the Democrats in the House and possibly the Senate.
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Speaker 3: For a very long time, The House of Representatives, it's
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Speaker 3: been predicted that the Democrats would win the House of Representatives,
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Speaker 3: and that's not a big prediction because that would be
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Speaker 3: just in line with history. That's what happens in a
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Speaker 3: midterm election. You go opposite of the party of the president,
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Speaker 3: and I think everybody knows that. So that's where those
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Speaker 3: numbers come from. But as we get closer and you
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Speaker 3: take a look at these individual races, 435 of them,
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Speaker 3: You can start sort of feeling your way through this
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Speaker 3: and come up with prediction. I want to go to,
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Speaker 3: first of all, the predictions that have come out for
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Speaker 3: some of these aggregated poll places. And I put this
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Speaker 3: out for people on social media. And I did this
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Speaker 3: two days ago, I guess, which would have been Monday.
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Speaker 3: And here's what this one says. This one is I
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Speaker 3: would give credit to who this is because this is
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Speaker 3: interactive polls on X who did this. And this is
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Speaker 3: 50 plus one is the prediction on this. They say
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Speaker 3: that the House has an 85 percent chance of having
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Speaker 3: 230 Democrat seats, the GOP 205 seats. So there you
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Speaker 3: have the 435 made up of 230 Democrats, which would
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Speaker 3: give Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats the gavel in the
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Speaker 3: House of Representatives. In the Senate, they put the number
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Speaker 3: at 51 seats for the Democrats, and they put that
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Speaker 3: at 55%. So you can see that even they believe
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Speaker 3: that this is still a toss-up in the Senate. And
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Speaker 3: they also say that the Democrats are even better positioned
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Speaker 3: than they were in 2018 in a blue wave. in
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Speaker 3: the Senate battlegrounds, they say. They say Georgia, a 94%
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Speaker 3: chance that Ossoff will win. I think Ossoff will win that.
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Speaker 3: I think it's probably higher than 94%. In North Carolina,
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Speaker 3: it will be a flip. You have Tom Tillis, who,
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Speaker 3: by the way, he said that he would support the
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Speaker 3: nomination and the confirmation of Todd Blanch as the Attorney General.
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Speaker 3: He did that on Tuesday. and they got Todd Blanch
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Speaker 3: out of committee. He now will go before the Senate
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Speaker 3: to have a complete vote for the confirmation. John Cornyn
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Speaker 3: is another one. Both of those had been stopping Todd
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Speaker 3: Blanch in the committee, but they both agreed to get
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Speaker 3: him on through once Todd Blanch said, we're not going
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Speaker 3: to do that 1776 fund for the JSEC prisoners. He
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Speaker 3: guaranteed that he would not bring that back, and that
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Speaker 3: had to do with Donald Trump's IRS lawsuit. that they
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Speaker 3: had agreed to settle out of court without taking it
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Speaker 3: to court. Donald Trump had sued the IRS for $ 10
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Speaker 3: billion for leaking his personal information, and they made a
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Speaker 3: side deal where Donald Trump could get $ 1. 8 billion. It
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Speaker 3: would go into a fund that could be used for
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Speaker 3: the weaponization of the Department of Justice when Joe Biden
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Speaker 3: was president. The Republican senators didn't really care for that setup.
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Speaker 3: Most funding needs to come through the power of the purse,
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Speaker 3: which is the Congress, and Some members of the Senate
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Speaker 3: Republican side didn't appreciate Donald Trump trying to go around them.
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Speaker 3: So they got that worked out. Now, Todd Blanch will
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Speaker 3: come before the Senate for a full vote of confirmation
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Speaker 3: before the end of the week. And the Senate takes
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Speaker 3: a recess for the month of August. Michigan, they have
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Speaker 3: it leaning Democrat in this poll back to the poll now.
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Speaker 3: Then they say it is about a 69 percent chance
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Speaker 3: that El-Sayed will win. I don't put it that high.
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Speaker 3: I think that that could be a pickup for the
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Speaker 3: Republicans with Mike Rogers. In Maine, they also have that
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Speaker 3: as a Democrat. That would be Jack Powers, who took
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Speaker 3: Graham Platner's place. And news came out about him, Powers,
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Speaker 3: that he fathered two children with a second cousin. I
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Speaker 3: don't know how you feel about that. I guess they
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Speaker 3: call them kissing cousins. But I think it's outlawed in
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Speaker 3: a lot of states, but evidently not in Maine, because
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Speaker 3: Jack Powers, the guy running for the Democrats on the
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Speaker 3: Senate side, he had two children with a second cousin.
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Speaker 3: And he says, well, this poll says he's got a
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Speaker 3: 68% chance to take that seat from Susan Collins. And
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Speaker 3: every time Susan Collins runs, it seems like that's what
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Speaker 3: they say about Susan Collins. But she seems to win
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Speaker 3: all the time. And I would say this about Susan Collins.
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Speaker 3: She has come out and she says she will not
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Speaker 3: confirm Todd Blanch. She did that on Tuesday. I think, really,
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Speaker 3: it's probably a smart move for her. That's not out
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Speaker 3: of the ordinary for what Susan Collins does when she
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Speaker 3: votes for things. But she's running a very important race
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Speaker 3: here that the Republicans must hang on to to maintain
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Speaker 3: power in the Senate. And they don't want to lose
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Speaker 3: that gavel. And Susan Collins is an important cog in
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Speaker 3: that opportunity for the Republicans in the Senate to hang
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Speaker 3: on to power. She can't lose. So she is going
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Speaker 3: to not confirm Todd Blanche. So that's one less Republican Senate.
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Speaker 3: You have a couple more you could lose. We'll have
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Speaker 3: to watch people like Lisa Murkowski. I guess Cornyn and
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Speaker 3: Tillis are okay now. Is Mitch McConnell, you know, where
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Speaker 3: is he? Nobody's really talking about that now. I think
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Speaker 3: he's in rehab, personally. When you look at Mitch McConnell
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Speaker 3: at this point, if his staff is continuing to to
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Speaker 3: do a charade that he is dead or brain dead,
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Speaker 3: whatever you may think, then this has gone on too long.
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Speaker 3: We're six or seven weeks into this. This is a
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Speaker 3: serious problem for the people that have covered it up
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Speaker 3: at this point. So I really believe that he has
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Speaker 3: been in rehab. It's not uncommon for 84-year-olds to go
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Speaker 3: into rehab for a long period of time. Both of
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Speaker 3: my parents did. My father, before he passed away, was
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Speaker 3: in rehab for the rest of his life, which was
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Speaker 3: three or four months. Maybe that's where Mitch McConnell is.
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Speaker 3: My mother's, you know, eight weeks in a rehab. So
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Speaker 3: it happens. It's not uncommon. And I just think that
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Speaker 3: if it was being covered up at this point, then
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Speaker 3: somebody on his staff, maybe multiple people, would be in
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Speaker 3: a lot of trouble for this type of cover-up. And
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Speaker 3: so because of that, I believe that he's probably in
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Speaker 3: rehab somewhere. And he either gets better or he doesn't.
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Speaker 3: That's what happens when you're 84 years old. Let's keep
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Speaker 3: going with the Senate races. Ohio, they have it leaning Democrat,
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Speaker 3: 53% to 47%. And this is a tough race. You
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Speaker 3: have Sherrod Brown, who is beating Husted. And Husted was
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Speaker 3: someone that was appointed to take place for J.D. Vance
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Speaker 3: when he became vice president. So he was appointed, and
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Speaker 3: now it's his turn to try to win a six-year term.
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Speaker 3: And Sherrod Brown, who had been in the Senate previously—
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Speaker 3: who got beat by Bernie Marino, who's doing a fantastic
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Speaker 3: job for the Republicans. It is Sherrod Brown who is
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Speaker 3: winning and may come back in, and you're going to
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Speaker 3: lose a seat for the Republicans there. Ultimately, you're losing J.D.
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Speaker 3: Vance's seat. In Alaska, it is truly a toss-up. You
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Speaker 3: have Sullivan, who is the incumbent, and Paltola, the Democrat,
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Speaker 3: and they put it at 51-49 in favor of the Democrats,
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Speaker 3: but that is a true toss-up. In Texas, we watched
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Speaker 3: Tallarico and Paxton. They put it at 52% to actually
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Speaker 3: Paxton and the Republicans. And I think ultimately Ken Paxton
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Speaker 3: will win that race. It is Texas. He is a Republican.
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Speaker 3: And I think ultimately he wins that and he will
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Speaker 3: hang on to that seat for the Republicans. In Iowa,
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Speaker 3: they say it's a toss-up, but they give it a
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Speaker 3: lean to the Republicans at 59% to 41%. but they
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Speaker 3: say it's a toss-up. The Democrat candidate in Iowa, he's
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Speaker 3: a good candidate. So don't be surprised if that Iowa
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Speaker 3: would flip. So there are some flippable states for the Democrats.
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Speaker 3: I think ultimately that I disagree with this, and that's
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Speaker 3: what we all do anyway in this, is we agree
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Speaker 3: or disagree on things. I put the House at 222
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Speaker 3: to 213 in favor of the Democrats. And if you
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Speaker 3: remember when I started this, this interactive polls on X,
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Speaker 3: they put it at 230 for the Democrats. So they're
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Speaker 3: a little bit, you know, they're out there with the Democrats.
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Speaker 3: It could happen. It could even be more than 230
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Speaker 3: for the Democrats. But the Republicans could also win. You have,
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Speaker 3: you know, this continuing resolution that is in the Senate
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Speaker 3: that they have advanced. And, you know, let me address
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Speaker 3: that real quick. A lot of people came out Monday
16:59
Speaker 3: night when the a vote was taken to advance the
17:03
Speaker 3: continuing resolution as if the continuing resolution had passed. And
17:07
Speaker 3: the continuing resolution is to fund the government from October
17:11
Speaker 3: 1st when we are scheduled for a shutdown if the
17:14
Speaker 3: budget is not done. And it would fund the government
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Speaker 3: to December 11th. So they voted Monday to advance that
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Speaker 3: to a vote, and the vote will be coming this
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Speaker 3: week in the Senate again before they head out for
17:26
Speaker 3: the summer vacation for them in August. So if the
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Speaker 3: Senate passes that I would be shocked. I would just
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Speaker 3: be shocked that they do because I don't think the
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Speaker 3: Democrats are going to pass it. So we'll watch and
17:40
Speaker 3: see what happens with that this week on that continuing resolution.
17:43
Speaker 3: And if it doesn't pass, then we're looking at a
17:45
Speaker 3: government shutdown coming October 1st, which will have a great
17:48
Speaker 3: deal to do with the midterm election. I think that
17:53
Speaker 3: the Democrats, the Republicans hang on to the Senate. I
17:57
Speaker 3: believe that's what happens there. Um, And I think it's
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Speaker 3: going to be 51 or 52 for the Republicans right now.
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Speaker 3: A lot of time between now and November. So everything
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Speaker 3: that I just said for the last 15 minutes, it
18:11
Speaker 3: could all change. And that's politics in America. But I
18:16
Speaker 3: think it's fun to watch. It's fun to talk about.
18:18
Speaker 3: It's what we do. And we'll just have to continue
18:21
Speaker 3: to watch things as we get closer and closer to November.
18:24
Speaker 3: And more of these primaries happen on Tuesdays. By the way,
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Speaker 3: Tennessee has a primary coming up on Thursday. Marsha Blackburn,
18:33
Speaker 3: she is running for governor in that state. She's not
18:37
Speaker 3: a good candidate, but she's the only candidate the Republicans have.
18:41
Speaker 3: It's very similar in a way to Florida and what
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Speaker 3: you have there. A lot of people in Florida, they
18:46
Speaker 3: don't really care for Byron Donalds. I'm talking to conservatives
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Speaker 3: in the state of Florida. Byron Donalds is not their pick.
18:53
Speaker 3: But they really don't have another one. And they have
18:55
Speaker 3: a very good moderate Democrat in David Jolly, who was
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Speaker 3: a Republican a year and a half ago, who flipped.
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Speaker 3: So watch that race as well.
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Speaker 6: because it brings a grain and a little bit of money.
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Speaker 6: We put it back in the plate. I guess that's
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Speaker 6: why they call it God's country.
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20:55
Speaker 3: that she is weak for doing that. From what I
20:58
Speaker 3: understand here in this case is that David Hearn just
21:02
Speaker 3: reached in to grab a the paint that was peeling off,
21:06
Speaker 3: that he actually didn't destroy it as he had been
21:10
Speaker 3: charged and indicted for. And there were three others as
21:13
Speaker 3: well that were let off the hook there. And apparently
21:17
Speaker 3: a prosecutor in that Washington, D.C., U.S. attorney's office, they
21:22
Speaker 3: may have, you know, I don't know how to say this,
21:26
Speaker 3: but for political purposes in front of the grand jury,
21:29
Speaker 3: maybe have stretched the truth in what happened. And once
21:33
Speaker 3: they really had to come out with the evidence to
21:36
Speaker 3: support what they had charged and indicted, they couldn't do it.
21:40
Speaker 3: That's what happened there in that case. Also, not only
21:43
Speaker 3: is Donald Trump building a big ballroom on the east
21:46
Speaker 3: side of the White House, he is also changing the
21:49
Speaker 3: helipad at the White House. I don't know if you've
21:52
Speaker 3: seen this, but the Marine One helicopter, they have a
21:55
Speaker 3: new one, and it is a massive helicopter with big exhausts.
22:00
Speaker 3: And it was burning up the grass on the White
22:02
Speaker 3: House lawn. So Donald Trump, you know, he requisitioned a
22:07
Speaker 3: new helipad so that the grass on the White House
22:10
Speaker 3: lawn would not burn up. And he got private funds
22:13
Speaker 3: from Lockheed Martin, who is the parent company of Sikorsky Helicopter.
22:18
Speaker 3: Sikorsky makes this new Marine One. And it's a five
22:22
Speaker 3: to six million dollar project. And as they are building it,
22:25
Speaker 3: Donald Trump looks out from the White House window and
22:27
Speaker 3: he says, wait a minute. That thing is slanted. It
22:31
Speaker 3: needs to be redone. You need to rebuild it. And
22:33
Speaker 3: I want it done before Chairman Xi from China comes
22:36
Speaker 3: to visit in September. And that brings me to this question.
22:41
Speaker 3: Why is Chairman Xi still coming to Washington, D.C., if
22:46
Speaker 3: China is truly supporting Iran and giving them weapons, as
22:50
Speaker 3: has been reported? I don't know if that's true or not.
22:53
Speaker 3: But if it is true, then why would Xi be
22:56
Speaker 3: coming to America? But Trump wants that helipad straightened out. Evidently,
23:00
Speaker 3: the White House lawn in that area, it declines at
23:04
Speaker 3: about a 20 percent grade. And they were building this
23:07
Speaker 3: helipad with the grade instead of making it level. And
23:11
Speaker 3: Donald Trump looks out and says, I want that to
23:13
Speaker 3: be with the horizon, not with the ground. So they
23:18
Speaker 3: are going to rebuild that helipad that cost about five
23:21
Speaker 3: to six million dollars. Private funds have done that. Although
23:25
Speaker 3: Senator Mark Warren of Virginia, who also won his primary election,
23:29
Speaker 3: On Tuesday, he says that Donald Trump has spent about $ 875, 000
23:33
Speaker 3: taxpayer money to speed up the process of the construction.
23:38
Speaker 3: So I don't know that that matters. We need a
23:40
Speaker 3: new helipad so we don't burn up the grass on
23:42
Speaker 3: the White House lawn. I just thought those couple of
23:45
Speaker 3: stories were interesting, wanted to touch on them and pass
23:48
Speaker 3: them along to you. But more importantly, right now, I
23:51
Speaker 3: want to talk about the fraud. The fraud drives us nuts.
23:54
Speaker 3: A lot of people will say, well, Donald Trump isn't
23:55
Speaker 3: doing enough. Well, if he were not in office, I
23:59
Speaker 3: don't think any other administration that would be in that
24:02
Speaker 3: office would be doing what they're doing in fraud, whether
24:05
Speaker 3: it's Minnesota or California, whatever state. There was a big
24:08
Speaker 3: bust just this week in the southeastern part of the
24:12
Speaker 3: United States. Also, one in Pennsylvania. Let's go to that one.
24:15
Speaker 7: Announcing criminal charges against 19 defendants for fraudulent home health
24:20
Speaker 7: care schemes that targeted Pennsylvania's Medicaid fraud program and resulted
24:26
Speaker 7: in over $ 4 million of fraud.
24:28
Speaker 4: What we're exposing today is a diabolical breach of trust,
24:31
Speaker 4: a violation of the sacred bond between patient and caregiver.
24:35
Speaker 3: That was Dr. Oz there, and he's a big one
24:39
Speaker 3: there in the fraud. He's going after it.
24:41
Speaker 5: J.D.
24:42
Speaker 3: Vance is over everything in fraud. And I'm glad to
24:45
Speaker 3: see it. Taxpayer money being wasted really bothers me, and
24:49
Speaker 3: I know that it probably bothers you as well. Let's
24:51
Speaker 3: keep going with this press conference here and listen to
24:54
Speaker 3: the U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania.
24:55
Speaker 7: We are announcing criminal charges against 19 defendants for fraudulent
25:00
Speaker 7: home health care schemes that targeted Pennsylvania's Medicaid fraud program
25:05
Speaker 7: and resulted in over $ 4 million of fraud. 18 of
25:10
Speaker 7: these defendants were charged in the last 12 days. as
25:14
Speaker 7: part of a strategically coordinated law enforcement operation between the
25:18
Speaker 7: Fraud Division, the US Attorney's Office, and the Pennsylvania Attorney
25:21
Speaker 7: General's Office. The cases today build on the work that
25:25
Speaker 7: we recently announced in Minnesota, where we charged 15 defendants
25:29
Speaker 7: for systematically looting seven state-managed Medicaid programs out of more
25:34
Speaker 7: than $ 90 million, treating those programs like a piggy bank
25:39
Speaker 7: until one of them had to be shut down entirely
25:42
Speaker 7: because there was nothing left Good.
25:45
Speaker 3: I am glad we are getting after these people that
25:47
Speaker 3: do Medicare and Medicaid fraud. Of all the people in
25:50
Speaker 3: our society that we should be helping, it's people like that.
25:55
Speaker 3: And we have other Americans that are out there just
25:58
Speaker 3: stealing from that fund. It's unfortunate. Can you imagine what
26:03
Speaker 3: America could do and be if there wasn't so much
26:06
Speaker 3: fraud across government in all of these states? And What
26:10
Speaker 3: happened in Minnesota, what they continue to try to uncover
26:13
Speaker 3: in Minnesota is just an example of it. But it
26:17
Speaker 3: is at scale across many states. Probably all 50 states
26:21
Speaker 3: have fraud like that. Maybe not as bad as what
26:24
Speaker 3: we saw in Minnesota, but it's bad. There was another
26:27
Speaker 3: one of those, as I mentioned, in the southeast part
26:29
Speaker 3: of the country that included, I think, 16, 17, 18
26:34
Speaker 3: states were involved. And it was much more money than
26:37
Speaker 3: the $ 4 million that they're talking about in Pennsylvania.
26:39
Speaker 7: These are not victimless crimes. Every fraud case prevents bread
26:45
Speaker 7: from going to the table of a needy family or
26:48
Speaker 7: health care from going to the elderly.
26:50
Speaker 8: The Justice Department's National Fraud Enforcement Division, along with state
26:54
Speaker 8: and local officials, says it's identified about $ 350 million in
26:59
Speaker 8: alleged fraud across the southeast.
27:00
Speaker 9: And this is good news for this state.
27:03
Speaker 7: This is good news for this region.
27:05
Speaker 9: This is good news for the United States.
27:07
Speaker 8: One case involves the former CEO of Impact Charter School
27:11
Speaker 8: in Louisiana, her husband and their daughter. They were indicted
27:14
Speaker 8: for allegedly diverting more than $ 1. 5 million in state and
27:18
Speaker 8: federal funds meant for students. Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald
27:23
Speaker 8: says a public audit found that the suspect used money
27:27
Speaker 8: for a trip to Egypt and to buy a Land Rover.
27:29
Speaker 7: And yet you all paid for it. You all paid
27:32
Speaker 7: for that Land Rover.
27:33
Speaker 8: Another case involved a years-long scheme that allegedly stole more
27:37
Speaker 8: than $ 2. 5 million meant for low-income elderly and disabled residents.
27:42
Speaker 8: And in another, a Louisiana business owner paid small-town police
27:45
Speaker 8: chiefs $ 5, 000 per name to invent hundreds of fake violent
27:50
Speaker 8: crime reports so illegal immigrants could claim they were victims
27:53
Speaker 8: and get special U.S.
27:55
Speaker 1: Visas.
27:55
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. Unbelievable what people do in this country. to steal
28:01
Speaker 3: from your tax money. It's incredible. The most vulnerable people,
28:05
Speaker 3: the children in schools, the people on Medicaid and Medicare,
28:09
Speaker 3: our elderly, that's who they're stealing from, but they're stealing
28:12
Speaker 3: from us. They're stealing from every taxpayer in this country.
28:16
Speaker 3: And I often wonder, how did we go from about
28:20
Speaker 3: $ 5 trillion budget prior to COVID to $ 7 trillion, which
28:25
Speaker 3: is where we have been close to that ever since?
28:28
Speaker 3: And I know that We shut down everything, and obviously
28:32
Speaker 3: the government had to pay for everybody not working during COVID.
28:35
Speaker 3: But after it was over, it should have gone back down.
28:38
Speaker 3: And then you see what USAID was and how much
28:42
Speaker 3: money was wasted through fraud and abuse through USAID. And
28:47
Speaker 3: USAID really paid for the illegal immigrants that came through
28:52
Speaker 3: the Eagle Pass in Texas. I remember doing a story
28:56
Speaker 3: on that several years ago during the Biden administration. They
28:59
Speaker 3: would come from South and Central America and all along
29:03
Speaker 3: the way you had NGOs that were supplying cash, cards, food,
29:09
Speaker 3: clothing to get them to the southern border in America
29:13
Speaker 3: where now they are sitting here and we can't get
29:16
Speaker 3: them out because there's a backlog of three and a
29:18
Speaker 3: half million people waiting for asylum hearings. That was what
29:23
Speaker 3: was created with your taxpayer money, but we go from
29:26
Speaker 3: about $ 5 trillion to $ 7 trillion and We're spending $ 1. 5 trillion, $ 1. 2
29:31
Speaker 3: trillion more than we take in every year in this country. Meanwhile,
29:34
Speaker 3: we have $ 40 trillion in debt. Nobody can afford health insurance, healthcare.
29:40
Speaker 3: stinks in this country. And we can't seem to find
29:43
Speaker 3: any solutions because our neighbors are stealing our money through
29:48
Speaker 3: things like you just heard there with that. It's so
29:51
Speaker 3: frustrating to me. I know that it frustrates you as well.
29:56
Speaker 3: Can you imagine what we could do with that money,
29:59
Speaker 3: either paying down the debt or possibly, you know, we
30:03
Speaker 3: could shore up Social Security, which they say will be
30:06
Speaker 3: insolvent in 2034. We have a problem with Social Security,
30:11
Speaker 3: but nobody really wants to address that, do they? We
30:15
Speaker 3: just don't want to address the things that need to
30:17
Speaker 3: be fixed in this country. And meanwhile, the Trump administration,
30:23
Speaker 3: the Department of Justice continue to try to find this
30:27
Speaker 3: fraud in states all over the place. In places like California,
30:31
Speaker 3: which I think is just the tip of the iceberg, really.
30:35
Speaker 3: I think everybody gets upset about Minnesota, but compared to
30:39
Speaker 3: California and New York, it's probably nothing. Speaking of New York,
30:43
Speaker 3: what about New York City? Have you seen the grocery
30:47
Speaker 3: store that Mam Donnie is putting in? And by the way,
30:50
Speaker 3: these grocery stores, they've been tried in other places. Kansas City,
30:54
Speaker 3: they closed last year after losing millions of dollars. It
30:58
Speaker 3: just didn't work. The shelves were empty. That's what happens
31:01
Speaker 3: in communism. We'll see how Mamdani does this. And at
31:05
Speaker 3: first they said, you're going to need an ID to
31:08
Speaker 3: get food here in New York so people don't come
31:10
Speaker 3: from other places and abuse it and take advantage of it. Really,
31:14
Speaker 3: they're going to need an ID to go to the
31:16
Speaker 3: grocery store, but you don't need an ID to vote.
31:18
Speaker 5: Interesting.
31:19
Speaker 3: Interesting. But then Ma'am Donnie said, that's not right. You
31:22
Speaker 3: don't have to have an ID. So anybody can go
31:25
Speaker 3: to the groceries, and it's not free. It's about 30%
31:28
Speaker 3: less than a regular grocery store. They estimate that it's
31:32
Speaker 3: going to take about $ 200 million away from the market
31:36
Speaker 3: in the grocery, which means people, companies that have grocery
31:40
Speaker 3: stores in New York, they're going to be the ones
31:43
Speaker 3: that hurt and lose $ 200 million because of these grocery stores.
31:48
Speaker 3: We know how this ends, just like they have in
31:50
Speaker 3: other states that have tried this. They end up closing.
31:54
Speaker 3: That's what happens to these grocery stores. They are not free.
31:57
Speaker 3: They are a 30% discount in New York City anyway.
32:00
Speaker 3: There are five grocery stores that Mam Donnie is opening.
32:04
Speaker 3: Let's watch this together and see how it goes because
32:06
Speaker 3: we know that it will go just like the rest
32:09
Speaker 3: of them in Kansas City and I think it is Illinois,
32:12
Speaker 3: Chicago that also closed nine of those stores recently. They
32:17
Speaker 3: continue to close because they can't keep food on the shelves.
32:22
Speaker 3: When it's that cheap or if it's free, people just
32:25
Speaker 3: come help themselves. And the shelves get empty. We saw
32:29
Speaker 3: it in communism in the Soviet Union. You remember that
32:32
Speaker 3: back after the wall fell in 89? There was no
32:38
Speaker 3: food on the grocery shelves there in Russia. And that's
32:42
Speaker 3: what's going to happen in New York City as well.
32:44
Speaker 3: They're going to find that, you know, It's not like
32:47
Speaker 3: going to Kroger or Publix or Safeway or any of
32:51
Speaker 3: those great big brands where the shelves are full constantly.
32:55
Speaker 3: Guess what happens to a lot of that food? Perishable
32:58
Speaker 3: food you have to throw away after a while. It's
33:01
Speaker 3: a cost of doing business. And in communism, you can't
33:04
Speaker 3: throw away food. And so the shelves end up being empty.
33:09
Speaker 3: And that's what's going to happen in New York as
33:11
Speaker 3: well as the Democrats continue to try socialism to bring
33:15
Speaker 3: in communism. into this country. And we can't allow that
33:18
Speaker 3: to happen. That's why this election in November is so
33:22
Speaker 3: very important.
33:23
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33:28
Speaker 3: All of us were told from a very early age,
33:31
Speaker 3: you are what you eat. And if that's the case,
33:34
Speaker 3: don't you want the best for you and your family?
33:36
Speaker 3: Let me tell you where you can go do that.
33:38
Speaker 3: You can go to beefinitiative.com. That's beefinitiative.com, where they will
33:44
Speaker 3: connect you with a rancher somewhere in your state. And
33:47
Speaker 3: it's more than just making sure you're eating the right
33:50
Speaker 3: things and your family is. It's about America. Let's be honest.
33:54
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33:55
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33:59
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34:15
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34:20
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34:44
Speaker 3: don't know if you're paying attention to what's going on
34:47
Speaker 3: in Spain, but it's one story that I have stayed
34:50
Speaker 3: away from for the last five or six days since
34:53
Speaker 3: it blew up at the end of last week. And
34:55
Speaker 3: there's a reason for that. I thought that the reporting
34:58
Speaker 3: on it from the beginning on Fox was a blatant lie.
35:02
Speaker 3: And I put that out on social media. I put
35:04
Speaker 3: some posts out about what is going on in Soweto,
35:08
Speaker 3: in North Africa, not in Spain. I think it's an
35:12
Speaker 3: important distinction. I think it's also important to understand what
35:16
Speaker 3: separates North Africa from Spain, which would be to the
35:20
Speaker 3: north of North Africa. So if you were invading Spain
35:24
Speaker 3: from North Africa, it would be southern Spain. But Fox
35:28
Speaker 3: News said that this was going on in the northern
35:32
Speaker 3: part of Spain, that the northern part of Spain was
35:35
Speaker 3: being invaded by Muslims from Morocco. And you have to
35:41
Speaker 3: understand the history here. You also have to understand recent
35:44
Speaker 3: history between Donald Trump in Morocco, Donald Trump and Spain
35:49
Speaker 3: to understand what's going on. I thought that this story
35:52
Speaker 3: would die down pretty quickly. I think that it has already.
35:56
Speaker 3: If you know much about it, well, let's assume that
35:59
Speaker 3: you don't. And let's talk about what happened. There was
36:02
Speaker 3: a surge of about 50,000 to 60,000 Moroccans that went
36:07
Speaker 3: across the border into Soweto. There are two cities, enclaves,
36:12
Speaker 3: that are still controlled by Spain, much like Spain did
36:15
Speaker 3: control Florida in America at one time. There are territories
36:19
Speaker 3: of Spain in Africa, a different continent from Europe, which
36:23
Speaker 3: is where Spain is. So no one invaded Spain. They
36:28
Speaker 3: opened the gates and 50,000 to 60,000 Moroccans went into Soweto.
36:33
Speaker 3: That happened on Thursday and into Friday of last week.
36:36
Speaker 3: By Saturday morning, about 50,000 had left. They went back
36:40
Speaker 3: to Morocco. My understanding from very credible reporting is that
36:45
Speaker 3: this was coordinated by five Facebook groups with about 230,000
36:49
Speaker 3: followers in Morocco. So there are some left now, and
36:55
Speaker 3: let's go to this report, which was put out on Tuesday.
36:59
Speaker 5: Thousands of migrants are still here in Ceuta. Many on
37:03
Speaker 5: this beach, the beach El Trampolin, is the nearest to
37:06
Speaker 5: the temporary shelter for migrants that is completely full. So
37:10
Speaker 5: these people end up staying here on the beach. They
37:13
Speaker 5: spend the day and night here. Some have told us
37:16
Speaker 5: they prefer to sleep during the day because they feel safer,
37:19
Speaker 5: and they end up staying awake during the night. As
37:23
Speaker 5: you can see, most of them are from Sub-Saharan Africa,
37:27
Speaker 5: a lot of people here from Sudan. And this morning
37:30
Speaker 5: as we arrived, many were in the sea, they still
37:33
Speaker 5: are washing themselves, washing their clothes. Many of them are
37:38
Speaker 5: still with the clothes that they swam from Morocco to Ceuta.
37:43
Speaker 5: And they've been complaining that for the past few days
37:45
Speaker 5: there's been no place where they can take a shower,
37:48
Speaker 5: where they can eat, they can have some water, and
37:51
Speaker 5: where they can sleep. So this is the beach where
37:53
Speaker 5: many of them are staying right now, after five days
37:56
Speaker 5: since this mass migration started here in Ceuta.
38:01
Speaker 3: So a mass migration, she says, and she says that
38:03
Speaker 3: they swam, which is not really true. Some of them swam,
38:08
Speaker 3: but the majority of the 50,000 to 60,000 swam. They
38:11
Speaker 3: just walked across the border from Morocco. And most of
38:13
Speaker 3: them were Moroccans. They got there. And Sueta is a
38:17
Speaker 3: city of about 80,000 people. It's not big. So you
38:21
Speaker 3: add 50,000 or 60,000 people. They did some looting. They
38:24
Speaker 3: made a mess in the streets. And then they went
38:27
Speaker 3: back home because there was nothing there for them. And
38:30
Speaker 3: they were not going into Europe. They can't swim across
38:34
Speaker 3: the Strait of Gibraltar. And the Strait of Gibraltar might
38:37
Speaker 3: be a bigger reason why this is going on. especially
38:40
Speaker 3: if you understand the history here. This enclave, Sueta, has
38:46
Speaker 3: been argued about with Morocco and Spain since 1956, when
38:52
Speaker 3: Morocco got their independence. They believe that these two enclaves,
38:56
Speaker 3: Sueta is one of those, belong to them. They think
39:00
Speaker 3: it is their city. It is connected to them, and
39:04
Speaker 3: Sueta is separated by the Strait of Gibraltar into Spain,
39:08
Speaker 3: so into Europe. So They believe that it's their land,
39:12
Speaker 3: rightfully so, is what they think. And Donald Trump has
39:16
Speaker 3: already come out in the past with Morocco, and he
39:22
Speaker 3: recognized their sovereignty over the Western Sahara there in Morocco,
39:27
Speaker 3: which is something that was also disputed in the past.
39:30
Speaker 3: I don't know if you know this, but Donald Trump
39:32
Speaker 3: has a highway that is being named after him in
39:36
Speaker 3: the Sahara. He has a very good relationship with Morocco
39:39
Speaker 3: and not so much with Spain at this point. So
39:43
Speaker 3: I think there might be more going on here than
39:46
Speaker 3: we really want to think. It's being portrayed... especially in
39:50
Speaker 3: America by Fox News and others, that this was an
39:54
Speaker 3: invasion into Spain. And I would point out again, it's
39:58
Speaker 3: two different continents here. We're talking about North Africa, where
40:02
Speaker 3: this is happening. Yes, it is a Spain territory. It
40:05
Speaker 3: has been for centuries, just like Florida was at one point.
40:10
Speaker 3: But let's go to some of these posts that I
40:12
Speaker 3: put out last Friday, because I think it's important. First
40:18
Speaker 3: of all, the things that Fox News put out on Friday,
40:22
Speaker 3: here's a direct quote from them. Migrants storm border of
40:27
Speaker 3: northern Spain. That's what it says. In the top left
40:31
Speaker 3: of the screen, it says Sueta, Spain, which is a
40:35
Speaker 3: territory of Spain. So I guess technically that is true,
40:38
Speaker 3: but it's not northern Spain. If anything, it would be
40:42
Speaker 3: the southern part of Spain, not the northern part. And
40:45
Speaker 3: if you look at a map, you would see that
40:48
Speaker 3: that is the truth. So that started things out where
40:51
Speaker 3: this really boiled up into an invasion of Muslims into Europe.
40:57
Speaker 3: And people were saying Spain is gone. Well, I think
40:59
Speaker 3: Spain is gone already. And I think Donald Trump believes
41:02
Speaker 3: that as well. And maybe we should all start believing that. Now,
41:07
Speaker 3: if you go back to the beginning of July, we're
41:10
Speaker 3: going to do this July 2nd of this year, 2026.
41:14
Speaker 3: King Mohammed VI stated to Donald Trump, quote, Also, Morocco
41:19
Speaker 3: has joined the Abraham Accords to have a relationship with Israel.
41:23
Speaker 3: This was Donald Trump's big push, the Abraham Accords. It's
41:26
Speaker 3: part of the Arab nations creating an alliance in the
41:43
Speaker 3: Middle East, which could ultimately mean that America will not
41:47
Speaker 3: have to be in the Middle East, which is something
41:49
Speaker 3: we could all agree to. And Morocco has named a
41:52
Speaker 3: highway in the Western Sahara after Donald Trump. Very high-ranking
41:57
Speaker 3: Moroccan officials routinely reiterate that the Spanish territories, like the
42:03
Speaker 3: small city of Soweto, are as Moroccan as regional Sahara zones.
42:09
Speaker 3: On August 1, 2026, Trump said in a message to
42:14
Speaker 3: Morocco's King Mohammed VI, quote, the United States has been clear.
42:19
Speaker 3: We recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, and we support
42:25
Speaker 3: Morocco's serious, credible, and realistic autonomy proposal as the only
42:30
Speaker 3: basis for the just and lasting solution. Any other path
42:35
Speaker 3: prolongs the status quo So there is some history here
42:42
Speaker 3: with Donald Trump and Morocco, and there's also history with
42:45
Speaker 3: Donald Trump in Spain. It was a little bit later
42:48
Speaker 3: in July, in the middle of July, that there was
42:51
Speaker 3: the NATO summit. And if you remember at the time,
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump was sitting with the head of NATO and
42:57
Speaker 3: He said that he wants to cut off all trade
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Speaker 3: with Spain. They're a deadbeat NATO nation, is what they are.
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Speaker 3: They don't pay any of their fair share to protect
43:09
Speaker 3: themselves in Spain. Another part of this, let me point
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Speaker 3: this out as well. Spain has not allowed United States
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Speaker 3: Air Force to fly in or over Spain during the
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Speaker 3: Iran conflict. They also have cut off the ships, Navy ships,
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Speaker 3: from coming to their ports to replenish, refuel. That is Spain.
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Speaker 3: On the other hand, Morocco has customarily allowed American ships
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Speaker 3: to come in and replenish, refuel, and do everything they
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Speaker 3: need to do to stay out there in Iran, in
43:43
Speaker 3: that part of the world. Morocco really is a better
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Speaker 3: ally to America than Spain is, even though Spain is
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Speaker 3: in NATO. There's more to this than maybe just 50,000
43:54
Speaker 3: to 60,000 migrants storming Europe as has been portrayed here.
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Speaker 3: Number one, it's not true. They are in North Africa
44:04
Speaker 3: in a small city of Soweto, and we're down to
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Speaker 3: about 5,000 to 7,000 of the original 50,000 to 60,000.
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Speaker 3: I believe the truth is important. I believe there's more
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Speaker 3: going on here. And recently, I know that Thomas Massey
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Speaker 3: put this out. that they passed a piece of legislation
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Speaker 3: that included $ 40 million for Morocco in trying to have
44:26
Speaker 3: them normalize relationships with Spain. So when you read and
44:31
Speaker 3: look at the layers of this thing, it may be
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Speaker 3: a little bit different than what is being portrayed on
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Speaker 3: social media and on places like Fox News and the media.
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Speaker 3: You have to read, you have to understand the history
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Speaker 3: between Donald Trump and Morocco, Donald Trump and Spain.
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Speaker 9: Not happy with NATO because of what they did with Greenland.
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Speaker 9: And I'm not happy with NATO because of the fact
44:54
Speaker 9: that they didn't want to help us with the number
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Speaker 9: one state sponsor of terror, that's Iran. They were unwilling
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Speaker 9: to help us. Now, in all fairness, they didn't speak
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Speaker 9: to Mark about it. I think if I did, it
45:03
Speaker 9: might have been different. But we didn't need help. But
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Speaker 9: I was really testing. I wanted to see whether or
45:08
Speaker 9: not they'd be there. And the answer is they were.
45:10
Speaker 9: I spoke to Germany. I spoke to France. I spoke
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Speaker 9: to U.K., spoke to Italy. I spoke to, I didn't
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Speaker 9: speak to Spain. Spain is a wasted cause. We don't
45:21
Speaker 9: want to do any trade business with Spain anymore, by
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Speaker 9: the way. I'd like you to cut it off. Spain
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Speaker 9: is a terrible partner in NATO. They don't participate. They
45:32
Speaker 9: don't pay. I don't want anything to do with Spain.
45:35
Speaker 9: Cut off all trade with Spain, please.
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Speaker 3: So what do you think about this relationship with Spain
45:41
Speaker 3: and the United States right now? And then Donald Trump's
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Speaker 3: relationship with Morocco and the King of Morocco and what
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Speaker 3: he has previously said about the nation's sovereignty in Morocco.
45:53
Speaker 3: It sounds like this may be more than what is
45:56
Speaker 3: being propagated out there. It's not an invasion of Muslims
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Speaker 3: into Europe. They have to get to Europe first, which
46:05
Speaker 3: is across the Strait. And then when you look at
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Speaker 3: the Strait of Hormuz in Iran and the way it
46:10
Speaker 3: has been used by Iran to choke global trade of
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Speaker 3: all sorts, not just oil, then you worry about places
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Speaker 3: like the Strait of Gibraltar. If you cannot trust Spain,
46:22
Speaker 3: but you can trust Morocco, who do you want to
46:24
Speaker 3: be there in enforcing that? Because right between Spain and
46:29
Speaker 3: Morocco is the Strait of Gibraltar. And we have learned
46:32
Speaker 3: through this Iran conflict that the straits are pretty important.
46:37
Speaker 3: We also now see that Saudi Arabia and UAE are
46:40
Speaker 3: looking at pipelines and other ways to go around that street.
46:44
Speaker 3: And in the long run, that's probably a good idea
46:47
Speaker 3: that these countries have also learned that in the Arab nations.
46:52
Speaker 3: Donald Trump says he put off bombing Iran to oblivion recently.
46:57
Speaker 3: It was scheduled for Sunday night, but the Arab nations
47:01
Speaker 3: and others came to him and said, let's give this
47:03
Speaker 3: peace thing one more chance. So Donald Trump is doing that.
47:07
Speaker 3: I don't know who he's negotiating with. I don't know why.
47:09
Speaker 3: I have consistently said that now for months and months.
47:13
Speaker 3: We're over five months into this, and here we are.
47:18
Speaker 3: I think Donald Trump is looking at this long-term, not
47:22
Speaker 3: just about his legacy, but whether America is going to
47:26
Speaker 3: continue to be in the Middle East. If you look
47:29
Speaker 3: at what is being put together, you have an alliance
47:33
Speaker 3: of Arab nations with Israel. I mentioned Morocco there a
47:37
Speaker 3: few minutes ago. They're in North Africa, but very close
47:40
Speaker 3: to the Middle East. So they are part of the
47:42
Speaker 3: Abraham Accords, but so is UAE, Bahrain, other nations. Saudi
47:48
Speaker 3: Arabia is not yet. But if they could have normalized
47:52
Speaker 3: relationships with Israel through the Abraham Accords, establish embassies in Israel,
47:59
Speaker 3: then America can rely more on that alliance than just
48:04
Speaker 3: Israel and Mossad, which So many people, they don't want
48:07
Speaker 3: us to be so close to Israel. A lot of
48:09
Speaker 3: people believe that Israel controls our country. Ultimately, what this
48:14
Speaker 3: could do is keep Americans out of the Middle East
48:17
Speaker 3: for good, which is something I think 100% of Americans
48:20
Speaker 3: would love to see. We have to have some patience here.
48:24
Speaker 3: We're five months into this. Maybe Donald Trump set up
48:28
Speaker 3: this wrong in the beginning. He said four to six weeks,
48:31
Speaker 3: which it was exactly that. when the ceasefire, original ceasefire,
48:35
Speaker 3: happened on April 7th. But since then, we have seen
48:38
Speaker 3: what has been going on. Donald Trump says, we're going
48:40
Speaker 3: to make a deal. We've got a deal. We're going
48:42
Speaker 3: to have a deal any minute. Then we have a
48:44
Speaker 3: memorandum of understanding that was not understood, apparently, by Iran
48:49
Speaker 3: because they continued to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
48:52
Speaker 3: And now we have this negotiation going on where they
48:54
Speaker 3: say they're going to open the Strait of Hormuz. To me,
48:57
Speaker 3: it's the same thing over and over. I have been
49:00
Speaker 3: one that has consistently said Donald Trump should just do
49:03
Speaker 3: what he has to do from the very beginning and
49:05
Speaker 3: never have a ceasefire. I don't think it's going to
49:09
Speaker 3: work at all. And now we see in Gaza, the
49:14
Speaker 3: second part of that peace deal, which was for Hamas
49:18
Speaker 3: to give up their weapons, there's a hang up there, too.
49:21
Speaker 3: The Board of Peace mentioned over the weekend by Donald
49:23
Speaker 3: Trump has come to the agreement between Hamas and Israel
49:28
Speaker 3: to get rid of their weapons, their missiles and their drones. However,
49:32
Speaker 3: now there is a problem with that because Israel says
49:35
Speaker 3: they've got to do that first before we pull out
49:39
Speaker 3: of Gaza. That's going to be a problem. I think
49:42
Speaker 3: it has been presented as a problem since that ceasefire
49:47
Speaker 3: was first mentioned in January of 2025. The biggest part
49:52
Speaker 3: of that ceasefire was Hamas giving up their weapons. Meanwhile,
49:55
Speaker 3: Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessette continues to tighten the screws
49:59
Speaker 3: financially on Iran, and I think that's probably the best
50:03
Speaker 3: thing to do. You have inflation of 200% in Iran
50:07
Speaker 3: right now. You have about three to four million Iranians
50:11
Speaker 3: that have lost their jobs since this conflict started on
50:14
Speaker 3: February 28th. Regime change is what is needed because right now,
50:19
Speaker 3: who are we negotiating with? It's a question that I
50:21
Speaker 3: asked months ago. Are you negotiating with the IRGC, the president,
50:27
Speaker 3: or the mullahs? Exactly who are we negotiating with? It
50:31
Speaker 3: would appear that IRGC, actually has control, but we're probably
50:36
Speaker 3: not talking to them. That's the problem in Iran. And
50:41
Speaker 3: that's not going to change until the regime has changed.
50:44
Speaker 3: And the only way that can happen is from the
50:46
Speaker 3: people of Iran. And when things get uncomfortable, when inflation,
50:51
Speaker 3: when they can't afford anything, when they don't have jobs,
50:54
Speaker 3: then they're going to look to make a change at
50:56
Speaker 3: the top. About 75% of the Iranians, they don't even
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Speaker 3: want that government there. 25% are supportive of what has
51:04
Speaker 3: been going on there for 47 years. But they're radical.
51:08
Speaker 3: They're radical jihadists. The other 75% of Iranians are just
51:14
Speaker 3: wanting a good life, like they had prior to 47,
51:18
Speaker 3: 48 years ago. Iran was almost a Western nation back then.
51:24
Speaker 3: They dressed like Americans. They drove cars like Americans. They
51:27
Speaker 3: had McDonald's. And then all of that changed in 1979.
51:33
Speaker 3: That's what 75% of the Iranians want. They're going to
51:35
Speaker 3: have to do it themselves. Boots on the ground by
51:39
Speaker 3: America won't solve that problem. It has to be done
51:42
Speaker 3: from within, not from outside, not from another country. Meanwhile,
51:47
Speaker 3: the Arab nations with Israel, I think that's a great future.
51:51
Speaker 3: It has America relying on Israel less, which most of
51:55
Speaker 3: us would probably want. And it has Americans staying out
51:59
Speaker 3: of Iran. And ultimately, That's what Donald Trump is trying
52:03
Speaker 3: to achieve here. Is it about his legacy? If that happens,
52:07
Speaker 3: if everything as I described happened, he would have an
52:10
Speaker 3: incredible legacy in the Middle East. But I don't believe
52:13
Speaker 3: that's what's driving Donald Trump. I believe it's keeping us
52:18
Speaker 3: out of there, keeping us from spending trillions of dollars.
52:22
Speaker 3: And I see it as nothing more than America first.
52:26
Speaker 3: I'm Booker Scott. Thank you for listening tonight. And don't
52:29
Speaker 3: forget that you were told 2,000 years ago that you
52:32
Speaker 3: are the salt of the earth. And salt without flavor,
52:34
Speaker 3: it has no value. So whatever you do, keep being salty.
52:38
Speaker 3: Have a great night.
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